The
only foreign flagged vessels making port calls to Atomflot are those with some
kind of nuclear cargo. Atomflot is Russia’s only import site for
containers with spent nuclear fuel. Other kind of radioactive material could be
shipped to port in St. Petersburg.
The vessel's route can be tracked from the portal Marine Traffic. Tracks show
that "Mikhail Dudin" sailed out of the Kola bay at 20.30 local time
Wednesday.

The
cargo of nuclear waste reportedly comes from a former Soviet designed research
reactor in Poland, and is part of a US, Russian cooperation to organize
shipments of highly-enriched uranium back to Russia to avoid it from ending up
in terrorists' hands.

From
Poland, “Mikhail Dudin” has
sailed towards the North Sea and northbound the coast of Norway towards the Barents
Sea. The vessel has likely sailed outside Norwegian territorial
waters.

Director
of Norway’s Radiation
Protection Authorities, Ole Harbitz, says to BarentsObserver that his organization
has no information about any shipment of nuclear waste outside the coast of Norway
last week.

Most
probably, vessel’s AIS was switched off, sometime after Mar 15, and switched on
after vessel left Murmansk.
Last port of call was Tallinn,
Mar 15. Maybe ecologists figured out the vessel’s route using LRIT data, with
LRIT equipment being installed on board of all Malta flagged vessels, and
vessels of a number of other countries, too.